Got Empty Food Jars Lying Around? Try These DIY Baby Food Jar Projects, and Pave Way for Creativity in 2020

What You Need:

• Brush Black Sticko Alphabet Stickers
• Baby food jars
• Mod podge
• Glue gun or glue dots
• T-light candles
• Twine.

Method:

• To begin with, get the stickers and choosing the words Faith, Hope & Love, affix the letters on the baby food jars by brushing a thin layers of mod podge to the back of each letter.
• Next, wrap some twine around the jars’ rims using glue dots or a glue gun to keep it in place. Drop in a t-light in each jar and voila you have your cute T-Light Candle Holders!

What You Need:

• An empty baby food jar
• A mini scrub sisal Christmas tree on a wooden base
• Glycerin
• A glue gun
• Chunky colored glitter
• Gold spray paint
• Distilled water.

Method:

• After removing the labels of the baby food jar, clean the glue off and then spray paint the lid.
• Glue the mini scrub sisal Christmas tree on the inside of the jar lid by applying glue both inside the lid and at the base of the tree. Then allow them to dry for a couple of minutes, pressing the tree onto the lid. Keep them aside to dry for 24 hours.
• Next, add about a teaspoon of glitter to the jar, fill it with distilled water and add about 5 drops of glycerin. Then screw the lid back on and turn the jar snow globe upside down to witness the beauty of a cute mini snow globe.

What You Need:

• A baby food jar (a taller one if possible)
• Candies or other décor to fill the jar
• A sucker stick
• Felt
• A drill
• Green spray paint
• Hot glue gun
• Pair of scissors.

Method:

• Begin by drilling a small hole in the middle of the baby food jar lid, big enough for the sucker sticks to fit in and then spray paint the lid.
• Next, cut about 14, 2” circle for the felt flower and a single small one.
• Fold the circle in half and then fold the half of it forward by gluing it, and then the other half backward, so you have a little S shape.
• After you have 6 such pieces, glue them all together in a circle on the small felt piece. Now take one of the petals and trim off the tip a bit and glue it in the middle to make it puffier.
• Turn over the petal and repeat the trim and glue step. Now, put a dab of glue on your stick and place it on the flower.
• You can hold the stick to the lid by applying a little glue on the bottom of the lid and the stick.
• Now, put some jelly beans or candies inside the jar, close the lid and your topiary treat’s ready.

What You Need:

• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup coconut oil and a lemon,
• Baby food jar
• Label for the jar
• Colorful ribbons.

Method:

• Pour the sugar in a bowl and then squeeze lemon juice on it, mix it all up with the coconut oil.
• Zest the lemon and add it to the mix, be sure to save some for a later garnish to top up the scrub.
• Now add the lemon sugar scrub to the jar, glue a label to the front of the baby food jar and adorn it a ribbon to gift ahead.

What You Need:

For Bubble Jar:

• A clean baby food jar with the label removed
• Spray paint
• Glue gun
• A plastic doll or topper like a ballerina
• An animal, or whatever goes with the theme you have in mind. For reference purposes, we will use a ballerina here.

For Bubble Mix:

• 4 cups of warm water
• ½ cup sugar
• ½ cup of blue dawn dish soap.

For the wand:

• A pipe cleaner
• A wooden dowel
• Assorted beads.

Method:

• Before you begin, ensure that there’s no writing or stamp on the jar lid, which is best removed with rubbing alcohol or by using a primer before painting the lid. Spray paint the lid and let it dry for some time. Next, glue the ballerina topper to the lid
• To make the bubble mix, whisk the sugar into the warm water until it dissolves. Add the dish soap and the whisk to combine. Let the mix sit for a couple of hours, to help the bubble mix work better. You can then transfer the mix to the jar and screw the lid back on.
• To create a bubble wand, take one end of the pipe cleaner and twist it to form a circle or any other shape like a heart or a triangle, that’s approximately a quarter size or a size that will fit inside the jar comfortably.

What You Need:

• Betty Crocker Vanilla cake mix
• Gel food colors
• Baby food jar.

Method:

• Begin by heating the oven to a temperature mentioned on the cake mix box. Mix the contents of the cake mix as per instructions.
• Depending on how many jars you plan to make, you can make a box or two and with the number of colours you’d like to use, you can then divide the mix into so many bowls, one for each colour.
• Then add the gel food colour to each bowl and mix thoroughly.
• Next, carefully fill each jar with no more than half of it with the cake mix, either one colour per jar or layers of multiple colours in one jar.
• Then, place the jars on a baking sheet and bake for approx. 15-20 minutes, with an occasional check till the cakes are cooked thoroughly.
• If the jars are filled too high and the cake overflows, cut the top part of the cake when it has cooled down with a butter knife.
• Then screw the lids back on the jars and decorate the jars with ribbons, stickers or however you’d like to be gifted ahead.

What You Need:

• A wooden plaque
• Baby food jars
• Little wooden buttons
• Screws E6000
• Craft glue
• Paints.

Method:

• Start by painting the plaque and the inside bottom of the baby food jars in colours of your choice and then set them aside to dry completely.
• Next, hang the jars on the plaque with E6000 craft glue and leave them be for about 24 hours.
• Follow it up with gluing the little wooden buttons atop the screws and mount it on the wall you have in mind.
• You can store crafty knick-knacks, bathroom accessories, spices and more on the storage plaque.

What You Need:

• Baby food jars
• Hot cocoa powder
• Pack of marshmallows
• Some sprinkles
• Acrylic paint markers
• Small paint brushes
• Ribbons
• Glue gun.

Method:

• Use the acrylic paint markers to adorn the baby food jars with some free-handed cute design like hearts, stars, or one-liners.
• Fill each jar with hot cocoa, marshmallows and sprinkles and then put the lids back on. Glue some colourful ribbons around the lids and your Love in Jar gifts are ready.

What You Need:

• A baby food jar
• Blue food coloring
• Filtered water
• Aquarium plastic figurines or toy fish
• Blue and white glitter
• Glycerin
• Some aquarium rocks
• Plastic plants.

Method:

• Fill the jar with the pebbles/rocks, plants, water and the plastic figurines. Then add some blue food color to the extent that it looks visually appealing.
• Continue the process of filling the jar by adding some glitter and a few drops of glycerin to allow the water to flow more slowly and appear gooier.
• Put the lid back on and shut it tight and gently swirl the jar to see your sea creature swimming through the jar aquarium.

What You Need:

• A taller baby food jar
• Some glitter
• A spray adhesive
• Battery operated LED lights.

Method:

• Begin by spraying the inside of the jar with the adhesive to ensure every part of the jar is covered when filled with glitter, then add the glitter to the jar.
• Put the lid back on the jar and shake it up, next wrap the LED lights around the jar or inside for a sparkly glow.

• Paint Dipped Baby Jars – can work as gorgeous mini vases, looking adoringly festive. All that’s required is to dip the baby jars in your choice of latex paint colors swirling them around, so that the paint finish looks uneven and visually distinct on each jar. Once the jars have been placed to dry over a paper towel, upside down for about 24 hours, the end result would be a batch of unique and beautiful painted baby jars, ready to be used as flower vases.
• DIY Nail Polish Remover Jars – are spill proof and perfect party favors for your lady friends looking for quick revamp of their nails. All you need are two sponge pieces for each jar, tightly wrapped around each other in a swirl formation and then placed inside the jars. You can then place a small bottle of nail polish remover that can be used later to pour on the sponges to saturate them. And the jar’s ready to remove nail polish by just twisting the finger.
• Salt & Pepper Shaker Jars – can be ready with just a couple of small drills at the top of the lids, quick decoration with stencils and paints or acrylic paint markers and then filling the jars up with salt and pepper, one in one jar.